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Yesterday, just as OpenAI celebrated its 10-year anniversary, the AI company launched GPT-5.2, its latest series of AI models to power ChatGPT. The latest release is allegedly in response to OpenAI’s ...

ChatGPT is about to become faster and more conversational as OpenAI upgrades its flagship model GPT-5 to GPT-5.1. OpenAI announced two updates to the GPT-5 series: GPT-5.1 Instant and GPT-5.1 Thinking ...

Hardly anyone can have missed the AI phenomenon that has taken the world by storm. Almost every major company has some kind of AI initiative now. Politicians talk about how important it is not to ...

According to OpenAI, its new model ‘hallucinates less’ and is more accurate than GPT-5.1. According to OpenAI, its new model ‘hallucinates less’ and is more accurate than GPT-5.1. is The Verge’s ...

Up to 20 people can now be added to a group chat in ChatGPT. The responses are powered by GPT-5.1 Auto. The feature is available to logged-in users and is rolling out globally. AI has officially ...